A guide for anyone navigating breast cancer — and for everyone who wants to show up better. When Vikki Espinosa heard “You have breast cancer,” everything shifted. This book blends honesty and practical tools to support the hardest moments.
Vikki Espinosa is a writer, educator, and career strategist, and the author of One in Eight. She has spent decades helping people navigate major life and career transitions with clarity, compassion, and actionable tools. Her work blends lived experience, deep resilience, and steady guidance for anyone facing challenges or supporting someone through them.
Her story includes recovering from a life-changing knee injury, learning to parafence with the U.S. Wheelchair Fencing Team, navigating disability, and moving through breast cancer with determination and clarity. These chapters shaped the grounded, practical approach she brings to her writing, teaching, and coaching.
Vikki lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, Gus, their two daughters who live nearby, and their anxious-but-beloved rescue dog, Georgie. When she's not coaching, teaching, or writing, you'll find her lifting weights, walking Georgie, or at early-morning Pilates.
Vikki Espinosa is a writer, educator, and career strategist, and the author of One in Eight. She has spent decades helping people navigate major life and career transitions with clarity, compassion, and actionable tools. Her work blends lived experience, deep resilience, and steady guidance for anyone facing challenges or supporting someone through them.
Her story includes recovering from a life-changing knee injury, learning to parafence...
Today marks the official release of One in Eight, and I’m grateful to finally share the tools and guides I created to support anyone moving through breast cancer—patients,...
I never imagined I would write a book about breast cancer. I never imagined I would live through it, let alone try to put words around something that felt so big and...
I’m putting the finishing touches on the companion journal to One in Eight: a guided space for anyone moving through breast cancer treatment or supporting someone who is. It’s full of prompts, checklists, planning pages, grounding exercises, and room to breathe on the hard days.
The journal is headed to final design now, and I’ll share the cover and release date as soon as it’s ready. If One in Eight has been helpful to you or someone you love, I think this journal will give you (or them) a...
I’ve been working for months to make this book available to anyone who needs it—patients, partners, coworkers, managers, neighbors, and the people who love someone with cancer but don’t know where to start. Behind the scenes, I’ve been finalizing distribution, thinking about podcasts, obsessing over small details, and yes… quietly panicking about the fact that my friends and readers will now see photos of me that are not my most flattering.
